FemForce #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFemForce #14 is the dramatic midpoint of the publisher AC Comics' foundational Alizarin Crimson story arc — the first extended, multi-issue confrontation between Nightveil and her arch-nemesis — and it lands at a moment when the series was establishing what would become its signature storytelling engine: witch-on-witch power struggles that leave the entire team neutralized and force an unlikely savior (here, the Sekhmet-threatened She-Cat) to carry the climax. Within the broader history of FemForce, the longest-running all-female superhero team comic ever published, this issue crystallizes the dual-peril formula that defined the book through its 200-issue run: external supernatural threat meets internal character instability. The decision to make Jennifer Burke's flagging resolve a plot engine here reflects the writers' ongoing project of humanizing a replacement heroine the other team members never fully accept — a rare bit of character realism in late-1980s independent superhero comics.
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The issue was scripted by Wes Covington and pencilled by Darren Goodhart, with inks distributed across Ralph Cabrera, Bill Black, and Jeff Whiting — a collaborative inking arrangement common in AC's lean independent production model of the period. Bill Black, the founder of AC Comics and the architect of FemForce's universe, provided the cover. The story runs 28 pages and was published in August 1988, squarely in the middle of the Alizarin Crimson arc that Covington was shepherding through several consecutive issues of the title.
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- Published August 1988 by AC Comics; 28 pages; story title: 'New Ways: I Dream of Wires.'
- Script by Wes Covington; pencils by Darren Goodhart; inks by Ralph Cabrera, Bill Black, and Jeff Whiting; cover art by Bill Black.
- Alizarin Crimson — established as Nightveil's arch-nemesis throughout the series' run — uses a mind-controlled Nightveil as a weapon to systematically incapacitate the entire Femforce roster.
- The Fremont Building in downtown Orlando is destroyed by the Crimson-controlled Nightveil, and the blame is publicly pinned on the Femforce, adding a public-reputation crisis to the team's physical defeat.
- The Shade attempts to intervene against Alizarin Crimson's assault but fails, underscoring the villain's extraordinary power level at this stage of the arc.
- Jennifer Burke (the second Ms. Victory) begins to psychologically crack under pressure — a thread central to her characterization as a reluctant, institutionally unsupported replacement hero.
- The issue's central suspense hook involves She-Cat: Crimson deliberately releases her because She-Cat has been separated from her human psychic bond long enough that the Egyptian cat-deity Sekhmet within her is on the verge of an uncontrolled killing rampage.
- This issue is a direct chapter in a multi-issue arc that continues into FemForce #15 ('Witchwar!'), where Tara and Colt must break Alizarin Crimson's magical hold on both Nightveil and She-Cat.
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